Research Catalog

Title

Art for all : der Farbholzschnitt in Wien um 1900 = the colour woodcut in Vienna around 1900 = la gravure sur bois en couleur à Vienne vers 1900 / edited by Tobias G. Natter, Max Hollein, Klaus Albrecht Schröder.

Publication

• Koln : Taschen, [2016]
• ©2016.

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Additional Authors

• Natter, Tobias G. (Tobias Günter)
• Hollein, Max
• Schröder, Klaus Albrecht
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
• Graphische Sammlung Albertina, host institution.

Description

413 pages : color illustrations; 38 cm

Summary

At the turn of the 20th century, amid the domed grandeur of Vienna, a group of Secession artists reclaimed the humble woodblock. The gesture, though short-lived, and long overlooked by established art histories, may be seen as a decisive social, as well as aesthetic, moment. Elevating a primarily illustrative, mass-production medium to the status of fine art, the woodblock revival set a formal precedent for Expressionism while democratizing an art for all. Coinciding with the travelling exhibition through the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Albertina, Vienna, this Taschen edition brings together leading examples of the Viennese woodblock renaissance to give a long overdue exploration of its achievements and influence. Through prints, publications, calendars and pages from Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, it gathers works remarkable for their graphic and chromatic intensity, and vital with the traces of japonisme as much as the stylistic seeds of Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter and later Expressionist movements. Through figure studies, landscapes, patterns, and typographical treasures, the featured works are accompanied by detailed captions, as well as essays exploring their aesthetic and ideological implications, and biographies for the more than 40 artists. Examining their stark contours, stylization of the surface per se, and tendency towards contained color areas we evaluate the Viennese woodblocks as essential harbingers, and benchmarks, of the 20th century modernism to come. At the same time, we assess how the dissemination of the woodblock substantiated the Seccessionist claim for a democratized, all-encompassing art, while adding to their reappraisal of originality, and authenticity, and convention.

Alternative Title

• Color woodcut in Vienna around 1900
• Gravure sur bois en couleur à Vienne vers 1900

Subjects

• Wood-engraving
• Color prints
• Expressionism (Art)
• 1900-1999
• Wood-engraving > Austria > Vienna > 20th century > Exhibitions
• History
• Wood-engraving > Austria > Vienna > History
• Austria > Vienna
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Catalog of the exhibition in Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 6 July - 3 October, 2016, and Albertina Wien, 19 October, 2016 - 22 January, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-413).

Language (note)

• In German, English, and French.

Call Number

MDON+ 17-289

ISBN

• 9789000066193
• 9000066190
• 9783836539210 (book trade edition
• 3836539217 (book trade edition : hd.bd.)

LCCN

9783836539210

OCLC

957992639

Title

Art for all : der Farbholzschnitt in Wien um 1900 = the colour woodcut in Vienna around 1900 = la gravure sur bois en couleur à Vienne vers 1900 / edited by Tobias G. Natter, Max Hollein, Klaus Albrecht Schröder.

Publisher

Koln : Taschen, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-413).

Language

In German, English, and French.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Natter, Tobias G. (Tobias Günter), editor.

Hollein, Max, editor.

Schröder, Klaus Albrecht, editor.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783836539210

Research Call Number

MDON+ 17-289